MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) of a human brain.
Research at Rutgers and UCLA is enabling scientists to “read” the mind. When people perform selected tasks, their brains tend to alter functional MRI (fMRI) images in predictable ways. By studying control images of subjects known to be performing one or another of eight actions, the researchers can then predict which action another subject is performing based on an fMRI. They guess right 80% of the time (chance would be 13%). Eventually, researchers hope to use fMRI to determine whether a person is lying or telling truth.
This research is still a far cry from real mind reading. True mind reading would be to know someone’s thoughts and motives the way the Bible says God can. However, the movement of science toward being able to do with crude mechanical apparatus what God is said to do through spirit goes some way toward confirming the plausibility of the Biblical claim. Allowing for a moment the hypothesis that God designed the brain, it would be surprising if he could not provide himself some means of retrieving information from it.
